You’re Fat Because You’re Stupid

I came across a link to this website this morning, and I thought some of you might appreciate it. It is a diatribe directed at overweight people, or as they are known in politically correct terms, the “gravitationally blessed.”

Here’s a link and a quote:

You’re fat because you eat too much. Let’s just start with that. If you’re fat, you’re eating too much damn food. Period. It’s not your paren’t[sic] fault for giving you the “fat” gene. It may be their fault that they made you like food so much, but for once in your fat life let’s stop blaming other people, OK?

Speaking as someone who was oh-my-god-it’s-a-giant-talking-ham fat myself, that was pretty much precisely my problem. I don’t agree with the site’s tone, because I don’t think that yelling at people is very helpful, but I can’t really disagree with the points it makes.

The Web Site Version of a Drive-By Shouting

Amazingly, the site isn’t even trying to sell anything. It just wants to make its point in the style of a Geocities web page from 1998 and then move along on its way. I hate to say it, but it’s kind of refreshing, in a way.

Think about it. How often does someone walk up to you, tell you exactly what they think in no uncertain terms, and then roll out? Pretty much never, because there are huge social repercussions to telling it like it is. I don’t recommend trying it, honestly.

I once told it like it was over email to a former coworker–I told him I’d always thought he was “a douche”–and I still regret it ten years later even though he really was and still is 100% a douche.

Mo’ Food, Mo’ Problems

I don’t think that everyone who is fat is stupid, but I do think that a lot of overweight people are misinformed and/or fooling themselves. Yelling at people is never going to help, but speaking for myself, I must say that I wasn’t being my smartest when I was eating cheeseburgers three meals a day.

In fact, I was pretty stupid!